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BJP to woo Jats, Vaishyas in Haryana for 2024
With the Bharatiya Janata Party pulling up its socks for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and adjacent assembly polls, its Haryana unit is bustling to woo the Jats in the state. The party is drawing up plans to woo the key community, News18 has learnt. A senior BJP leader...
AAP’s Uttarakhand CM face quits
Two senior AAP leaders in Uttarakhand — Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) who was chief ministerial candidate in 2022 assembly polls and former working president of its state unit Bhoopesh Upadhyay — resigned from the party on Wednesday. Both the leaders tendered their resignations separately to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...
Freed Rajiv Gandhi killer, mother meet MK Stalin
AG Perarivalan — one of the seven convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case whose release was ordered by the Supreme Court today — and his mother Arputhammal met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in Chennai this evening. Mr Stalin tweeted a video of the meeting....
Hardik Patel finally quits Cong, may be headed for BJP
After months of back and forth over infighting in the Gujarat unit, Patidar leader Hardik Patel finally quit the Congress on Wednesday in yet another blow for the Grand Old Party just months ahead of the assembly elections in the state. Announcing his decision on Twitter with a resignation...
Protesting Punjab farmers serve ultimatum to Mann govt
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the AAP government with various demands, including a bonus on wheat and beginning paddy sowing from June 10. In an ultimatum to the Punjab government, farmer leader...
CBI arrests close associate of Chidambaram’s son
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested S Bhaskar Raman, a close associate of Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram in an ongoing visa corruption case following questioning late last night, sources said. The CBI has filed a fresh case against Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram, son of...
China jet crash sabotage, suggests Black Box data
Flight data from a black box recovered from the China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed in March indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment. A Western official told Reuters that the focus...
Export curbs relaxed for outbound wheat consignments
The government on Tuesday announced a relaxation on its orders restricting wheat exports. It has been decided that wherever wheat consignments have been handed over to Customs for examination and registered into their systems on or before May 13, such consignments would be allowed for export, according to an official...
RJD terms Rahul’s comments on regional parties ‘bizarre’
The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Monday asked Rahul Gandhi to look at recent electoral history of regional parties putting up a strong fight against the BJP as it took a swipe at him for his critical comments aimed at them, saying the Congress leader’s claims were “bizarre” and not...
CBI searches Chidambaram’s premises linked to son
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at multiple residential and official premises of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu, sources said today. The searches are reportedly being conducted at around seven premises of the former Union Minister across these cities,...
